15 SEPTEMBER 1877, page 14

Il—to The Same, On Beginning His Song.

Sit at my table, welcome guest, and sing The olden song, with young, unpractised throat ; I hold my breath to hear the perfect note Thy tender organs cannot yet make ring. Sing......

Books.

EDGAR QUINET'S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER.* Tim two first volumes of Edgar Quinet's Letters (which have already reached a second edition) continue, with some overlap- ping, that......

In Memoriam.—j. L. S.

BESIDE the waves that lap the Langland shore I linger, or with gentle effort stray Up the steep foot-tracks winding round the bay, And hearken to the solemn billows' roar.......

(to Trh Editor Of The ' 4 Eprotator.1 Sm,—mr. Bourne, In

his letter to you of last week on the "Monitorial System," strikes at the root of the matter when he says, "The opponents of the system should be prepared to tell us what to put......

The Monitorial Question. [to The Editor Of The...

difference of opinion about the value of Monitorial authority in schools which exists between such earnest men as have conducted the argument in your pages, may perhaps arise in......

P Oetry.

TWO SONNETS, I.—TO A FLEDGLING ROBIN. ROBIN, thou art too young as yet to wear The badge of robinhood in full confeet- The burning breastplate on the conscious breast— And hast......

Ito The Editor Of Thu " Sprotatoli.."1 Sir,—mr. Bourne, Like

Mr. Quick, does not perceive that his argument assumes far more than his opponents can admit. We do not allow that any substitute is required for a " machinery " which, in spite......